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Article	Date	Author Name
A Conversation on Craft with Ursula K. Le Guin	March/April 2017	David Naimon
Addressing Structural Racism in Creative Writing Programs	Online-Only Exclusives	Kazim Ali
Towards a New Creative Writing Pedagogy	October/November 2016	Fred D'Aguiar
Ferguson, Whiteness as Default, & the Teaching of Creative Writing	October/November 2016	David Mura
In Our Way: Racism in Creative Writing	October/November 2016	Claudia Rankine
An Interview with William Least Heat-Moon	December 2015	William Naparsteck
The Quarrel with Ourselves: Robert Penn Warren’s “World of Action and Liability”	March/April 2015	Natasha Trethewey
The Master Craftsman: Function Follows Form in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady	March/April 2015	Douglas Bauer
Ars Poetica and the Talking Cure: Poetry, Therapy, & the Quest to Create	October/November 2014	Lisa C. Krueger
Kurt Brown and What You Can Do for Poetry	Online-Only Exclusives	David J. Rothman
Balancing Craft & Commitment: Writing Political Fiction	March/April 2013	Rosellen Brown, Tracy Daugherty, & Ellen Meeropol
The Postmodern Memoir	March/April 2012	Hugh Ryan
The Absence of Their Presence: Mythic Character in Fiction	December 2011	Steven Schwartz
Novel Anxiety: Notes from the Genre War Trenches	March/April 2011	Martha Cooley
Between Starshine & Clay:An Interview with Lucille Clifton	February 2011	Remica L. Bingham
Turning the Screws of Story Construction with Henry James	May/Summer 2010	Aimee Liu
Odds on Ends	February 2010	Molly Giles
Poetry & Ethics: Writing About Others	December 2009	Natasha Sajé
An Interview with Sheryl St. Germain	October/November 2009	Allison Schuette
How We Are Changed by the Rhythms of Poetry	September 2009	Karin de Weille
Sin's Entertainment: On Dante's Inferno	March/April 2009	Martha Cooley
Silence & Storytelling	February 2009	Alice Mattison
Elegy for Desire: Luis Omar Salinas 1937-2008	October/November 2008	Christopher Buckley
Machines Made Out of Words: Translating Function & the Translator's Function	October/November 2008	Tony Barnstone
The Interval in Writing: What Happens Between Pussycats & Thugs Does Not Stay Between Pussycats & Thugs	September 2008	Brian Baldi
The Meandering River: An Overview of the Subgenres of Creative Nonfiction	September 2008	Sue William Silverman
On Difficulty in Poetry	May/Summer 2008	Reginald Shepherd
A Bridge Flung Over the Abyss: On the Work of Italo Calvino	May/Summer 2008	Martha Cooley
My Touchstones	March/April 2008	Alan Cheuse
Aural Invention as Floral Splendor: Louis Zukofsky's Vision of Natural Beauty in 80 Flowers	February 2008	Leon Lewis
Beautiful Clarity: Jane Kenyon, Anna Akhmatova, and the Luminous Particular	September 2007	David Harbilas
Ouija, Canoe, Haiku: A Collaborative Inquiry into Collaborative Poetry	December 2006	Isaac Cates & Chad Davidson
An Interview with Rita Dove	October/November 2005	Elizabeth Alexander
Return to Sender: Memory, Betrayal, and Memoir	October/November 2005	Mark Doty
An Interview with Chang-rae Lee	May/Summer 2005	Sarah Anne Johnson
An Interview with Edward P. Jones	December 2004	Sherry Ellis
Peering at Privacy in Creative Nonfiction	September 2004	Kaylene Johnson
"Imp of Verbal Darkness": Poetry Hoaxes & the Postmodern Politic	December 2003	Rebecca Warner
An Interview with Ai	December 2003	Tomas Q. Morin
Writing and Moaning	December 2003	Alan Cheuse
An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin	October/November 2003	Ramola D
The Treasure Trove of Metaphor: More on Poetry Anthologies	October/November 2003	Rachel Hadas
An Interview with Nick Hornby	February 2003	Tom DeMarchi
A Conversation with Dorothy Allison	October/November 2002	Renée Olander
Remembering Eudora Welty	October/November 2002	Richard Bausch
Poetry and Survival	September 2002	Gregory Orr
An Interview with Jayne Anne Phillips	May/Summer 2002	Sarah Anne Johnson
An Interview with Li-Young Lee	May/Summer 2002	Marie Jordan
The Muse in the News	February 2002	Andrew Ciofalo
"Tis Backed Like a Weasel": The Slipperiness of Metaphor	March/April 2001	Tony Hoagland
The Emergency Kit of J.G. Ballard	December 2000	Ando Arike
Bend Sinister: A Handbook for Writers	October/November 2000	Alice McDermott
From Long Shots to X-Rays: Distance & Point of View in Fiction Writing	September 2000	David Jauss
The Self as a Literary Construct	December 1999	Jocelyn Bartkevicius
An Interview with Mark Doty	March/April 1998	Dale Boyer
Rules & Reality in Fiction	May/Summer 1997	Ron Tanner
Reviewing Literary Citizenship	September 1995	Valerie Miner
Hypertext: Of Mouse & Man	October/November 1994	Sven Birkerts
An Interview with Mary Oliver	September 1994	Renee Olander
An Interview with Rosellen Brown	February 1994	Alexander Neubauer
Emily Dickinson, Madonna, Boomers, Busters, the Old Criterion, & the Next Millennium—	September 1993	Martin Schecter
The Great Ventriloquist Act: Gender and Voice in the Fiction Workshop	September 1993	Julie Brown
Literary Cross-Dressing	March/April 1990	Marianne Hauser
Rocks in Our Beds: A Dark Valentine to New England	September/October 1987	John Clellon Holmes
The Writer as Midwife	May 1987	Daniel Halpern
Whole Sight: Notes on New Black Fiction	February 1985	Charles Johnson
Tendril: A Brief History	February 1984	Mari Lonano
Solitude or Community: Writing As It is Taught	September 1980	Donald Justice
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?	September 1979	John Clellon Holmes
An Interview with Lydia Millet	May/Summer 2018	Susan DeFreitas
On the Value of Science and Art	May/Summer 2018	Tracy Daughterty
Looking Straight in the Eyes: Thoughts on the Political Poem	May/Summer 2018	William Wenthe
An Interview with David Biespiel	May/Summer 2018	Judith Pulman
From Screen to Page: A critical Introduction to Cinepoetics	May/Summer 2018	Michael Marberry
Parsing Elfland: Style and Syntax in World-Building	May/Summer 2018	Jonathan Helland
On Bad Behavior	May/Summer 2018	Amber Caron
Story Ending Ethology: Endings Beyond Freytagian Resolution or Joycean Epiphany	Online-Only Exclusives	Dustin M. Hoffman and Wendell Mayo
Letting Language Shimmer: An Interview with Margaret Gibson	March/April 2018	Edward A. Dougherty
Sound Thinking in Lyric Poetry	March/April 2018	Cynthia Hogue
Talking China with Michael Meyer	March/April 2018	John Coyne
Lingering in the Mundane: Adjectives and Endings in the Poetry of Barbara Ras	March/April 2018	Eric Smith
Catch and Release: Strategies of Overt and Covert Narratorial Control	March/April 2018	Sonya Larson
Other Epistolaries: When the Fictive Appropriates a Nonfictive Form	March/April 2018	Bayard Godsave
A Narrative Logic of the Personal Essay	March/April 2018	Bruce Ballenger
Writing the Journey: Teaching Storytelling in the Undergraduate Workshop	Online-Only Exclusives	Lawrence Coates
An Interview with Kenneth Irby	February 2018	Denise Low
Imitation vs. Originality	February 2018	Nicholas Delbanco
An Interview with Julia Keller	February 2018	Jera Brown
Heathcliff at the Village Green	February 2018	Margot Livesey
The Art of Description	February 2018	David Jauss
Poetic Image	February 2018	James Longenbach
Breaking Boundaries Through Linguistic Aesthetics in The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy the "Meteque"	February 2018	Sreedhevi Iyer
An Interview with Stanley Plumly	December 2017	Jacqueline Kolosov
Words Creating Space: Three-dimensionality in Prose	December 2017	Rachel Howard
An Unsentimental Interview with Debra Monroe	December 2017	Katie Cortese
Disappearing Act	December 2017	Thomas Sleigh
Twenty Questions: How Much Do You Know About Our US Poet Laureates (A Quiz)	December 2017	Grace Cavalieri
AWP’s First 50 Years of Literary Collaboration	December 2017	David Fenza
AWP’s Literary Agent Web Series: Partnership to Demystify the Process to Publication	December 2017	Fred Leebron
The Work Began to Disfigure Itself: The Contradictory Genius of V.S. Naipaul	December 2017	Vimi Bajaj